Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-01-10
State News.
CUMBERLAND.


Wednesday morning. while ]. L. Watson
the coal and good draier on Lincoln street
Portland, wac sxwi ing wood with circular
saw, his cost sleeve caught in the belt In
an infant hi. arm was drawn 10 and crushed
from the hand to the elbow.
The money FIR the Baptist free bed At the
Maine General Hospital has been rais.d and
its receipt is acknowledged BY Mr.. Barrett
treasurer OF the hospital.
HANCOCK,
The store of Frank o Foster on Maine
street. Bar Hxrbor. vas entered, "wednesday
event, bv means Of = stolen key. and the
mon. ' drawer robb d of its contents. The
,hi-i os tain. sl7 in change. b y nam.
K-ef. has been arrested, charged With the
larceny.
FRANKLIN.
Monday night, Jan 3 = Pennington mef
chant on his ~sy home. discovered boy
shout xix wears old crying on 'orstep. In
curing the cause he learned that The boy
mad be. n put out doors in the severe weather
bv hi. father. presumably As punishment
for s. ME offense. TIE gentleman raped de-
mand, d the admission of the bay and by
threats of executing tn law succ -sded II his
efforts to secure shelter FIR the child.
One DIV recently while Sheriff T..
Conant's hired man of Temple was working
in the wood. With his yoke of oxen, lsrgs
Tree the man had cut, in falling struck the
oxen ami Injured une of them 50 badly that
il had to be kil-d.
The last VT. Desert Herald saws that Mr.
Charles Dyer. a young man employed by Mr..
Chas. T. How, ut Woodbury. Park. was IA
tally injured one day last week, b ing struck
BY a tr, e which WAS FILLING His spine was
injured, and he lived but short time. lie
Was shout twenty sven years of age.
LINCOLN.
movement is being made by prominent
citizs ns Of Waldoboro to Organiz. stock
company to engage in the manufacture "f
furniture. Ii successful in securing sufh-
cient capital, not less than $40 900, the bulid
ings will be erected in the spring. The bus
mess will employ about IF y men and will be
enlarged if il rec, ives sufficient patronage.
PENOBscOr.
During the first nine months OF the Bangor
Loan and Building Associatio Sc 5SS, worth
OF shares were issued and of that amount
Sc, 800 is already in loans and drawing inter
est.
While engaged in banking an open 6re
Wednesday, the clothing of Mrs. Mark
Thompson, of Veazie, took fire from some
Goals that flew out, and she was very badly
burned about the side and back before fire
was put out
The Bangor Edge Tool Company 10 doing
large business in cant dogs and handles
this winter. They are rurnlng out 300 long
handles per day and expect to make 10000
during the winter.
OxFORD
The Norway Advertiser says Mrs. Harvey
Bennett of Bethel, attempted suicide last week
by hanging but was discovered while adjust
ing the rope in an out house. After being
conducted to the house she grasped = sharp
knife and cut an ugly cash in her throat.
SAGADAHoC.
The Elm ST. Baptist church of Bath has
increased 10 members fifty per cent in the
past three years, sixty-six new members hAv-
ing been added, according to the Times.
The Bath Water Supply Company have
mortgsged to the Boston Safe Deposit and
Trust Company as trustees, to secure an
issue of $3.50, 900 first mortgage bonds. prin-
cipal payable in 20 years At per cent inter-
est.
Messrs rcelon ana Dodge OF Burnham
have just sold to a Boston fur dealer $50
mink, 2300 muskrst and 100 skunk skins,
The whole made a load too heavy for pair
of horses
YORK
The annual meeting and banquet Of the
York County Bar Association was held in
the Saco House. Wednesday night, Jan s..
Hon John N Goodwin presided. Forty per-
sons participated in the festivities. including
leading officers and attorneys of the county.
AT LARGE.
Maine has during the last year put up TO-
10l 900 cans of corn, $1,000 cans of succo.
fash and over l44 900 cans of lima beans
Three Portland firms have done most of this
business.
Flfgy-six vessels, aggregating Is, 094 tons,
have been built in Maine the past year
This is the smallest tonnage for ten wears.